system restore

I've been experiencing multiple crashes on my laptop every day for about a month now. This has happened to me before but before I just had to do a system restore but I saved my files. Now, it will crash try to go into recovery mode but it fails and says I need a recovery CD or USB. I then have...

SO I used Kali Linux live usb, and I thought live usb would not erase windows but it did. I need help and any solution by which I can use Kali Linux as a live usb and not getting Windows wiped out. Thanks!

Hi. It's my first time in here, i have a Windows XP and i want a tutorial how to restart it from the begging, how to delete everything and start fresh like i bought a new pc. Thanks.

Hi guys. I have a Sony vaio that has recently been wiped unfortunately been hacked again for the second time damn neighbors. Anyway I need to clean reinstall it all. Apparently I need a product key. I just had it repaired and the guy that repaired it upgraded it and didn’t give me the key...

Before you read, I am very sorry if I posted this in the wrong section. I didn't know what section to use. I am also very sorry if this is too long. So the other day I went to go and develop an application. So I turn on my computer, and my headphones aren't connecting. I hit the restart button...

Hi, my computer keeps crashing after turning it on, and it keeps giving me The Blue Screen of Death. It's been like this for an entire week and a half, and I reset it around 3 weeks ago since it had the same problem before, and I thought it may have fixed it...but it didn't. I can't open an app...

I have a ASUS Netbook (X200CA) that has received the free Win 10 upgrade a year or two ago. It recently went about it's business and installed one of the many Win 10 updates and has never been able to recover since that time (around 12/25/17 or shortly thereafter). It gets to the blue Win 10...

Hi everyone, Recently while i was playing a game my laptop crashed with a blue screen with the message " your pc ran into a problem and needs to restart... with the stop code DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION. I then factory reset my laptop back to windows 8.1 as that was the only recovery back up I had...

Not sure if this is the right place for this question. Yesterday I had a pretty good calibration of color between monitor view and printing outcome. Today, for some unknown reason, I decided to calibrate the monitor to see if I could get even better outcome. Well, guess what - did not have the...

I have activated the History backup facility in Settings, but all get is a folder FileHistory and various sub-folders, all empty. It is a facility I would like to use to cover new files etc. made since my last regular image backup - is there any other way of setting it up properly. If I cannot...

I have an old laptop that I thought I'd try and speed up by using it as a Chromebook, however, I want to go back to Windows. I created a bootable USB Windows 10 drive and booted from that. I have run Win10 on this laptop before. When I try to install, there are now 27 partitions on the drive...

Hello, I just found my old pc and it has windows xp installed on it, last time I used it, it worked perfectly and now a few years later it don't work! Whenever it tries to load windows xp it always reboots and starts over, even in safe mode. Can someone please help, thanks in advance! :)

When one re-installs windows7 from scratch, what part of the hard drive does it write itself on? Will it overwrite old data, so to speak starting from the first place on the hard drive or will it rather first write in between un-used space? Would it make a difference if the old data had bean...

Hello: I am trying to sell a computer to someone else, and want to more or less sanitize my personal info from the computer. I secure-deleted the files with sensitive info, uninstalled my financial software, and then ran a program like Eraser that claimed to effectively wipe all free space. I...

Hi all Yesterday i found that my Arcgis server site was deleted and I don't know why, so I shred my services again on new site. and today the problem repeated so I decided to format my server to build every thing again from scratch. the problem is that after I made this, my site was deleted...

Hello! Earlier today, I experienced a BSOD indicating that my display driver underwent an infinite loop, and as a result, my laptop won't even boot up - it just stays idle in the windows logo screen then restarts every time. I tried doing the windows startup repair as well as system restore...

Basically what happened, computer froze when I moved mouse to get out of screen saver. I waited around 5 to 10 minutes, tried to open Task Manager but it was still frozen. Ended up holding down the power button to force shut down. When I started the computer again, I had no sound through...

I have been working on 3 wordpad files and I just leave the files open and save whenever I add new data to them. This morning I got on my laptop and clicked wordpad and all 3 files are completely blank and they are now just titled "Document" instead of the save name they had. I went to find the...

I'm running Win7 Pro 64-bit. Icons on my taskbar to the left of the notification area no longer show up. (The icons in the notification area are displayed.) I recreated iconcache.db and replaced iconcache.db with a backup made before the problem began but neither fixed the problem. All the...

Hi Everyone You may have already seen two previous threads from me about attempting to move a program from a Vista machine to an XP machine. I have now finally managed to get all the DLLs sorted out. The Ordinal 344 error was because I accidentally copied the wrong version of a DLL over...